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Tag Archives: blogging
Friday Morning
I’m struggling. My remote interlocutor in life of the mind is keeping me afloat insofar as having a rational dialog with someone. But that dialog is private. Of the muchness on my mind, I’m conflicted as to which of it … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged art, blogging, grammar, guitar, language, linguistics, miscellaneous, music, musicology, painting, personal, poetry, reading, rhetoric, style, translation, writing
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About the Stag
The poem is “Entire Known World So Far” by Carl Phillips (Poetry, July/August 2020). I share thoughts about my readings with a correspondent who returned the following in email: The part of the poem you copied out – where it … Continue reading
Posted in Anthology
Tagged blogging, correspondence, language, literature, poetry, reading, rhetoric, style, syntax, writing
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Kudos to Automattic
This commentary by Kara Swisher made me glad to be on WordPress. … Tumblr has landed with WordPress, a former rival and the kind of company that it probably should have been with all along. [Founder, Matt Mullenweg] is one … Continue reading
(Cough, Herd)
If past experience (cough, blogs) is any indication, a shakeout is nigh. (Jennifer Miller, “Have We Hit Peak Podcast?” NYTimes, 7-18-19) A bigger shakeout than podcasting (cough, climate change) is nigh. I’m reminded of a New Yorker cartoon in which … Continue reading
An Unsocial Medium
Farhad Manjoo is a favorite journalist of mine. I’ve read him from when he wrote about tech on Slate before joining the NYTimes. He touts in this column an “unsocial” digital diary app called “Day One,” describing it as “a … Continue reading
Quote This?
A kind observer from somewhere remarked that I had a fair amount of original content on my blog, and asked if I coped with plagiarism or copyright violation, saying he or she was seeing his or her own content cropping … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged blogging, copyright, ethics, Kardashian, lawyers, plagiarism, Wordpress
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‘Not Objectionably Reasonable’
EthicalDative must have a focus to offset my wandering attention. I try with mixed results to blog about art and language, and respond elsewhere and otherwise to the rest. An October 6th article about an appalling event has stayed in … Continue reading →